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Erik, > Is the LDM program designed to auto generate these gz files? Not sure > what's creating them. > > When I run gunzip on one of them, it's not a valid gzip file. When I cat > the file, it looks like binary data. No. The LDM package doesn't generate any *.gz files by itself: the only way that could happen is due to an entry to that effect in a pqact(1) configuration-file. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TNQ-639864 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.